Front end engineer
Location: NZ, N, Wel
Salary range: 45000-80000
Employment type: Full-time
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Mindscape is a Wellington based software development company that specialises in building tools for software engineers. We have a high growth product, Raygun (#URL_6b2f170addc3dd0415d65e21a8ece81d4c134c2b1a8b449386367dfaa286971b#) that's growing strongly. Mindscape is profitable and recently raised money to aggressively expand. Well respected, Mindscape has won international and national awards for excellence in software and has thousands of customers, including BMW, NATO, Intel, Microsoft &amp; Beats Music to name a few. If you're up for the challenge of joining a fast growing business then look no further.

Job description:
Raygun is a fast growing Mindscape product (#URL_6b2f170addc3dd0415d65e21a8ece81d4c134c2b1a8b449386367dfaa286971b#). Raygun is a hosted service for automatically collecting data about software crashes and errors. It has a strong design aesthetic with plenty of opportunity to be creative, quirky and professional all at once so it's no suprise that customers love the current design and cite it as being one of the many reasons they choose our service.You'll be joining a small team and have a direct impact on the Raygun web application. You should have extremely solid production skills with CSS/JavaScript, as well as a strong interest in the usability of what you're designing. This role is predominantly about design, but a full-stack skillset to implement your designs in the application would be a substantial benefit.One of the great things about building a product for a technical audience that we can use cutting edge technologies. Forget Internet Explorer 7 support - if our customers used that, they'd already be out of a job. You get to work with all the latest buzzword technologies and frameworks - HTML5 (we particularly love the Canvas tag), CSS3, D3.js, #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#. Our team is tight, and you'll be working directly with our lead designer, implementing great stuff with him and also being part of the design process yourself. You'll be tasked with creating a world leading user experience. We have users who want to pay for our product just for how beautiful it looks and we want you to help dial up the front end even further!Raygun is growing strongly, with thousands of developers globally using the service. Mindscape is well respected company for excellence in product development. The opportunity to join a fast growing, fast moving company where you have a direct impact on the application is here - are you up for the challenge?

Requirements:
3 years of frontend development experience.Highly skilled at HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Great taste, strong empathy, customer focus.Effectively incorporates broad goals into tactical work.Experience with Backbone, Angular JS, #URL_1d0f9eb2a7073ab63d5cfc0f9762fb40962b2b8ad1607a31c869aa4fd0382977# or #URL_ec870d4c32d3db2026283bb633aad057f18c5d5242768ddea14d56d6a38b12ef# is a plus.Experience with D3 is a plus.

Benefits:
You'll be part of a fast growing company, in a team where you have direct influence on the future design direction of the Raygun product. Competitive salary with potential to be part of an employee share scheme.Friday team lunches are provided.Mac, PC, we don't mind - you pick your kit.You work with the latest technologies and get to push the envelope of tech.This role is based in our office in Wellington, but we are flexible to working at home as needed.